Mobile Applications for Associates

The Home Depot is looking to help its associates better prioritize tasks with a new machine learning-powered app called Sidekick. Learn more.

We talk with Rob Mills, Tractor Supply EVP, chief technology, digital commerce, and strategy officer, about how they’re using things like wayfinding, mobile apps, and artificial intelligence to improve the consumer experience.

Watch to learn how they’re expanding their mobile app to provide more personalized consumer and employee experiences.

Uncover how intelligent automation equips employees to work smarter, autonomously address problems, and elevate their engagement with customers.

In conversation with RIS News, Penelope Sur, the vice president of talent management for Dick’s Sporting Goods, outlines the ways the team has embedded flexibility into their benefits and the impacts these initiatives have had on the business overall.

The Home Depot has launched a job seeker marketplace that will connect skilled tradespeople with those looking to hire in the construction and home improvement fields. Learn more.

The holiday season is approaching and retailers are beefing up their workforce now. Learn what Macy’s, Dicks Sporting Goods, and Target are offering potential associates to get them through the door.

Michael Saldaña, the retail operations and communications manager for UNTUCKit, says the company was able to get by with manual scheduling and timekeeping at the beginning. As their footprint began to expand, however, complications arose. Learn more.

Using the backdrop of RIS’ latest research, learn how to apply cutting edge workforce strategies to your own business to compete during this era of workplace innovation.

For more than a decade, RIS has been presenting these prestigious awards to retail CIOs who have demonstrated an innovative use of technology that has moved their retail organization forward. Here, RIS reveals the winner of our 11th annual CIO of the Year awards.

Connected associates in the store or the parking lot will offer Home Depot shoppers a new level of customer service.

Uncover how your retail peers are leveraging modern workforce solutions to lessen the impact of rising wages and the ongoing labor shortage. See where they are investing today to ensure happy employees tomorrow.